[ltp] X60 or X60s?

[Richard Neill]

Matt Graham wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 February 2007 13:42, after a long battle with technology, 
> michael@michaelshiloh.com wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Simon Williams wrote:
>>> Tom Neumann wrote:
>>>> I can't decide whether to buy an X60 or X60s. The X60 has a more 
>>>> powerful processor, the X60s probably a better battery life.
>>> Processor speed is totally irrelevant unless you are going to be 
>>> doing some intensive task- such as compiling or gaming.
>>> What is it with the world and constantly upgrading for office work
>>> and web browsing?
> 

Why can't we get OpenOffice to open in < 0.5 seconds on a fast machine 
yet? Come on Intel, where are the 20GHz Pentium VIIIs that we should 
have by now?

Seriously though, having a better processor shouldn't significantly 
affect you battery life, *provided* that you have power-management set 
up optimally. Most of the time, your CPU will be idle, but it's nice to 
have the option of an occasional burst of speed.

Richard


P.S. For those running KDE, I highly recommend the System Monitor system 
tray Applet.